PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Family Therapy, Psychopathology, Abnormal Psychology
28 Jun 2018
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Module 85: defining, classifying, and diagnosing psychological abnormality.
Abnormal psychology: the scientific study of psychological disorders, no universal definition of
abnormal behaviour. some suggest that, dysfunctional behaviour is too much or too little of a
normal behaviour.
Most psychologist agree that psychological disorders share four key features.
-deviance: behaviours (thoughts or emotions) differ from societal expectations (norms)
-distress: behaviour (thoughts to emotions) cause significant distress or unhappiness
-dysfunction: interfere with daily functioning (work-relationships)
-danger: some disorders may lead to self-injury or hostilely to others (likely expectation rather
than the rule)
symptoms: physical, behaviour or mental “features” associated with a disorder.
two common classification systems.
-International classification of diseases:(ICD) the system used by most countries to classify
psychological disorders; published by the world health organization and currently in its 10th
edition.
-published by the world health organization.
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders:(DSM) the leading system for
psychological disorders in Canada.
-manual used to diagnose mental disorders in North America.
- about 22 major categories.
Comorbidity: the conditions in which a persons symptoms qualify him for two or more
diagnoses
Diagnosis: a clinicians determination that a person’s cluster of symptoms represents a particular
disorder.
Module 86: Models of Abnormality.
criticism:
-too reductionistic
-does not take into action psychological or social factors\
psychological: personal experiences (learning ), personality factors, cognitive processes,coping
ability
Diathesis-stress model: disorders likely arise from interactions of internal genetic
predispositions (diathesis) and external stressful events (trigger)
the cognitive-behaviour model
-disorders are the results of 1) maladaptive learned behaviours and 2) problematic thinking
behavioural perspective: based on learning principles from classical conditioning, operant
conditioning and modelling
cognitive perspective: patterns of thinking underlie abnormality maladaptive belief and illogical
thoughts)
fixation: being trapped at an early stage of development due to traumatic childhood experiences.
the social-cultural model
A society characteristic create stressors for some of its members
-widespread social change
-cultural factors
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Document Summary
Module 85: defining, classifying, and diagnosing psychological abnormality. Abnormal psychology: the scientific study of psychological disorders, no universal definition of abnormal behaviour. some suggest that, dysfunctional behaviour is too much or too little of a normal behaviour. Most psychologist agree that psychological disorders share four key features. Deviance: behaviours (thoughts or emotions) differ from societal expectations (norms) Distress: behaviour (thoughts to emotions) cause significant distress or unhappiness. Danger: some disorders may lead to self-injury or hostilely to others (likely expectation rather than the rule) symptoms: physical, behaviour or mental features associated with a disorder. two common classification systems. International classification of diseases:(icd) the system used by most countries to classify psychological disorders; published by the world health organization and currently in its 10th edition. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders:(dsm) the leading system for psychological disorders in canada. Manual used to diagnose mental disorders in north america.
